Rallying for the seventh day in a row, the Sensex at the Bombay Stock Exchange gained 169 points, or 0.9 per cent, to close at 19,290 on Wednesday. The market rose on sustained strong buying by foreign funds, rising global bourses, and easing of global crude oil prices from a recent two-and-a-half-year high. The Sensex has now added nearly 1,450 points in just seven trading sessions. The Nifty at the National Stock Exchange climbed 51 points, or 0.9 percent, to 5,788. Stock markets in Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore rose between 1 percent and 2.5 percent.